News

July 10, 2024

Mobile weather labs map toll of extreme heat in scorching US cities.

James Dinneen, NewScientist

 

July 10, 2024

Sensing heat: How scientists in Phoenix study summer's deadliest invisible threat.

Joan Meiners, Arizona Republic

 

July 9, 2024 

Empowering Urban Communities with Climate Data.

Stephanie Kossman, Brookhaven National Laboratory Newsroom

 

July 3, 2024

Photos: weather balloon launched in Tucson to study extreme heat.

Mamta Popat, Tucson.com

 

July 2, 2024 

Lab trucks collect climate data in Tucson.

John Macaluso, KOLD 13 News

 

July 2, 2024 

Two tricked out trucks in Tucson help research extreme heat

Analeise Mayor, Tucson.com

 

July 2, 2024

Partnership between national lab and UA tracks extreme heat at neighborhood level.

Eddie Celaya, KGUN 9 News

 

July 2, 2024

Arizona researchers tackle urban heat with innovative weather data collection.

Katya Mendoza, AZPM News

 

July 2, 2024

Weather trucks search for answers about extreme heat in Tucson's 'data deserts'.

Kyle Mittan, UArizona Press

 

June 26, 2024

Observe weather-chasing trucks and interview extreme heat experts

Kyle Mittan, UArizona Press

 

June 21, 2024

Learn what ASU lab is doing to help tackle Arizona's extreme heat at June 22 event

Ignacio Ventura, KJZZ News

 

June 19, 2024

Computer modeling shows where Arizona's winter precipitation originates

Skip Derra, ASU News

 

June 15, 2024

Community night at Desert Botanical Garden will be hosted by an ASU-led lab

Julie Alexander, Investorbytes.com

 

June 6, 2024

Mobile home residents have a tougher time cooling house down

Jafet Serrato, KVOA News 4 Tucson

 

June 4, 2024

Arizona has experience planning for extreme heat. New university partnership shares that knowledge.

Mark Brodie, KJZZ

 

May 27, 2024

After a deadly heat wave last summer, metro Phoenix is changing tactics

AP, Anita Snow

 

May 20, 2024

New federally funded center will rely on UArizona expertise to help communities manage extreme heat

UArizona Press, Kyle Mittan

 

April 29, 2024

Hot Weather Brings Annual Housing Concerns to Arizona

AZPM, Tony Perkins

 

April 20, 2024

This Earth Day Vestar's GreenSTAR Program leads way in sustainability

Queen Creek Sun Times

 

February 9, 2024

Some mobile home owners aren’t allowed to install air conditioners. A proposed law would change that.

AZ Mirror, Leah Britton

 

January 31, 2024

Extreme heat watch: Will cities be ready for summer 2024?

Smart Cities Dive, Ysabelle Kempe

 

January 19, 2024

How Phoenix is preparing for its next brutally hot summer.

Yale Climate Connections, Osha Davidson

 

November 22, 2024

Extreme heat led to a Taylor Swift fan's death in Brazil. Could it have been prevented?

Grist.org, Akielly Huy

Amaripadath, D. and D.J. Sailor. Reassessing energy-efficient passive retrofits in terms of indoor environmental quality in residential buildings. Energy and Buildings, volume 319, 114564, ISSN 0378-7788 (15 September 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114564

Davis, Edwin V. and Lamer, Katia. Observations of airflow around a supertall curved building and its impact on temperature and humidity in Houston's urban center. Building and Environment, volume 260, 111693, ISN 0360-1323 (15 July 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111693

Merrow, S., Keith, L., Roy, M., and Shaylynn Trego. Plan evaluation fo rheat resilience: Complementary methods to comprehensively assess heat planning in Tempe and Tucson, Arizona. Environmental Research Letters, (28 June 2024). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326-ad5d05

Estacio, I., Román-Palacios, C., Hoover, J., Li, X., and Lim, C.: Open-source automatic extraction of Urban Green Space: Application to assessing improvement in green space access, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., X-2-2024, 65–72, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-2-2024-65-2024, 2024.

Megan L. Jehn, Jean M. Andino, Britney Russell, Vraj Rana, Sharmin Akter, Marina A. Creed, Harnoor Sodhi, Bailey Holmes, Tanya Palit, Jessica Wani, Kristina Wagstrom. Effectiveness of Do-It-Yourself Air Cleaners in Reducing Exposure to Respiratory Aerosols in US Classrooms: A Longitudinal Study of Public Schools. Building and Environment, volume 260, 111603, ISSN 0360-1323 (15 June 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111603

Anand, J., Alhazmi, M., and D.J. Sailor. Achieving net negative sensible heat release from buildings. Energy and Buildings, volume 311, 114121, ISSN 0360-1323 (15 May 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114121

Georgescu, M., Broadbent, A.M. & Krayenhoff, E.S. Quantifying the decrease in heat exposure through adaptation and mitigation in twenty-first-century US cities. Nature Cities 1, 42–50 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-023-00001-9

Moustaoui, M.,  Barclay, B.M., & Kostelich, E.J. Semi-Implicit Computation of Fast Modes in a Scheme Integrating Slow Modes by a Leapfrog Method Based on a Selective Implicit Time Filter, Monthly Weather Review , Volume 151: Issue 12 (Dec. 2023). https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0311.1 

Mark Kear, Margaret O. Wilder, Karina G. Martinez-Molina, Laura McCann, Dugan Meyer. Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 106 (Dec. 2023) 103318, ISSN 2214-6296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103318

Meerow, Sara, Ladd Keith, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego, Erika Schmidt, Jack Haskins, and Bryan Leyba, and Lindsey Jordan. (Oct. 2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Tempe, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/670109 

Trego, Shaylynn, Sara Meerow, Ladd Keith, Erika Schmidt, Bryan Leyba, and Lindsey Jordan. (Oct. 2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Phoenix, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/670044

Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego, Erika Schmidt, Jack Haskins, and Bryan Leyba. (Oct. 2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Tucson, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/669877

Lobo, J., Aggarwal, R.M., Alberti, M. et al. Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action. npj Urban Sustain 3, 32 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00113-0 

Anand, J, Sailor, D.J. How can we combine urban cooling strategies to effectively cool cities over the entire diurnal cycle? Building and Environment, Volume 242 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110524 

 

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Archives

October 26, 2023

Taking the heat off Valley Parking lots

ASU News, Dolores Tropiano

 

October 5, 2023

How to build a heat-resilient city

Grist.org, Jake Bittle & Naveena Sadasivam

 

September 27, 2023

Heat governance scholar Ladd Keith's collaboration with NOAA

NOAA Climate.gov, John Dos Passos Coggin, Melissa DeFrancesco, Gillen Curren, & Amber Liggett

 

September 19, 2023

Portion of Phoenix's Desert Ridge Marketplace gets cool pavement treatment

KTAR News, Suelen Rivera, KTAR.com

 

September 19, 2023

Vestar and ASU launch 'cool pavement project' at Desert Ridge Marketplace

AZ Big Meda, Vestar PR, www.vestar.com

 

September 19, 2023

Vestar Wants Shoppers to Stay Cool

US Real Estate News, Mike Boyd, US Real Estate News

 

August 23, 2023

‘Shocking’ Temps Don’t Tell the Whole Story of Extreme Heat

The Good Men Project, Kyle Mittan, UArizona

 

August 9, 2023

Tackling extreme heat isn't a summertime job - it's a year-round effort

SmartCities World, Luke Antoniou

 

July 31, 2023

As Arizona builds to solve a housing crisis, will its homes withstand future heat extremes?

Arizona Republic, Joan Meiners

 

July 28, 2023

Phoenix’s Rapid Growth Magnified Its Vulnerability to Heat

Bloomberg CityLab, Linda Poon

 

July 27, 2023

Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record high temperatures persist across the US

Associate Press, Drew Costley, Joseph B. Frederick, and Tassanee Vejpongsa

 

July 26, 2023

These thermal images show how Phoenix uses technology to keep cool

Washington Post, Allyson Chiu, Erin Patrick O'Connor and John Farrell

 

July 26, 2023

How cities are battling extreme heat, and why record-breaking temps don't tell the whole story

UArizona Communications, Kyle Mittan

 

July 26, 2023

This Sweaty Robot Can Teach Us How to Survive Extreme Heat

Singularity Hub, Vanessa Bates-Ramirez

 

June 30, 2023                                           

UA Workshop Deepens Local Educators’ Knowledge of the Impact of Climate Change in Arizona

AZPM News, Katya Mendoza

 

May 19, 2023

UArizona Experts Available to Discuss Extreme Heat

University of Arizona Press Release